The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-07-13
Interesting Women.

QUEEN VICTORIA has most graceful
walk and a sort of sweet, venerable, natural
dignity and power about her.
EX-QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain loves
Paris better than bull fighting Madrid.
She is herself in the Bots de Boulogne.
"JoHN STRANGE WINTER" the popular
novelist, is Mrs. Arthur Stannard, and she
is giving readings from her own works, a la
Dickens.
Miss CLEvELAND's contract, under
which she is to assume school teaching
duties, enjoins her from doing any other
outside literary work.
Mrs. FRANCES A. CoNANT is editor of
the Journal Of Industrial Education, pub
lished under the auspices of the Kitchen
Garden Association of Chicago.
JENNY JUNE" tells an admirer that if
her readers have liked what she wrote it
must have been of their own kindness, for
she never set any value on it herself.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CUSTER says she is
worn out with work upon her book, which
has not yet begun to assume any definite
shape. She has not decided upon q title.
IT is customary in Mexico to address
young lady by her first name. In England,
on the contrary, even q ladys maid is
called Parker or Jobson, not Matilda or
Rose.
NINE. WAGNER divorced her former
husband, Won Bulow, but the gossips say
she remained on the best of terms with
him. The artistic soul is a curious and
wonderful compound.
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON Fremont con-
templates spending the summer in the West
for the purpose of writing an accurate his
tory of the life OF Kit Carson, the famous
scout, pathfinder and explorer.
RELATIONS between the Princess Ste
phanie and the Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria have been strained for a long time.
1t is understood that the Crown Prince
will not allow her to wear bangs.
NINE. NILSSON loves her husband, but,
being n business woman, retains entire con-
troll of her fortune. She has learned by
experience TO be sensible woman. Her
former husband lost one fortune for her.
LA plus belle femme de Paris is a Louis
ianian. Her husband is French. She is
the Mrs. Langtry of the hour in Paris, and
Is admired for her courage in facing the
footlights after having enjoyed life of
wealth and luxury.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE at its recent cele-
bration made many Doctors of Letters and
Doctors of Laws; and. unlike Harvard, it
did not forget the ladies'. DR.. Alice Elvira
Freeman, DIR. Amelia Blandford Edwards,
and DR.. Maria Mitchell are blushing recipi-
ents of promiscuous congratulations.
MADAME OFFENBACH, widow of the
composer, died recently. She was sister
of NJ. Robert Mitchell, editor of the Bona
partist Pays, their father being Irish and
their mother Spanish. Madame Often
bach's receptions in her husbands lifetime
had great popularity. Since his death she
has lived in retirement.
ONE of the first things Queen Victoria
did on hearing that William ". was dead
and that she had succeeded to the throne
was to call one of her mothers lsdies-in-
waiting. "Am really Queen?" asked the
excited Princess. "You are, indeed,
madame" replied the lady in- waiting.
"And l can do what 1 choose, by rightr"
continued Victoria. Certainly, your
Majesty" "Then get me a cup of green
tea; mamma never would let me have it;
now mean TO know what harm it can de
me-" And the young Queen drank three
cups, had a violent fit of the shivers, and
has never liked tea since.